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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-08-03
LIGHTNING FREAKS.

LIGHTNING struck the Lyon County Kan
sas Court House, tore the gas meter from its
place, ignited the gas, and set the building
afire.
A NEGRO lad in Atlanta was so frightened
by thunderholt which struck tree against
which he was leaning that he became hope
less maniac.
LIGHTNING made splinters of the foremast
of the schooner Alfred H. Kemp, Of AL
bany while the Captain and crew stood
upon her decks, yet not a man was injured.
JAMES CARMICHAEL, Of Spring Hill Mines,
Ont, was standing on the porch Of his home
with two friends, when lightning instantly
killed him, while neither of his friends re-
ceived the slightest injury.
LIGHTNING peeled the bark from n tree in
Richwoods township, Illinois, and, cutting it
into six-inch pieces. drove them into the
weather boarding OF a house several feet
away, so that the whole front was decorated.
LIGHTNING entered the residence of 6. s.
Meacham at Fruitland Park, Fla, and
meandered around the premises until, meet
ing an umbrella leaning against the wall, it
ripped out the ribs and made bonfire of
the cover. 1t then left by the door.
THE -ints of the cultivator with which
Frank Strait, of Corning, Iowa, was plough
ing, were melted 10y lightning, and Strait
was killed. The only mark on his body was
a dark blue spot Oh the side OF his neck. His
shoes and stockings We're t)rn to slireds.
Two visitors at MarSh6eld, Wis, live to
tell a wonderful story Of lightning. One OF
them was struck upon the shoulder, the cur
rent passing down his leg and through the
sole of his shoe, making clcan-cut round
hole in the leather and entering the floor.
The other was likewise struck OH the shoulder,
and the fluid passed out through his slippers,
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COLLISION ON THE RAIL.
The Cars Catch Fire, and Many
Persons Killed Or Injured.

The Cars Catch Fire, and Many
Persons Killed or Injured.
The most shocking and fatal railroad acci.
dent that has happened in Western Ontario
for many years occurred at st. Thomas
about 7:SO the other night. As
special freight train on the
Michigan Central Railway, Engineer O'Shea
and Conductor Faatz, was crossing on the
London and Port Stanley Railroad track it
struc!; an excursion train on the London and
Port Stanley track carrying hundreds
of pleasure seekers. Both trains rush.
ed headlong to their fate, there
being little or no warning to
check the speed of either. The excursion
train struck the freight train few cars from
the engine and almost instantly the wreck of
cars that was speedily piled up on one ail-
other was in flames Unfortunately two
cars of petroleum, consigned to Windsor,
were attached to the freight train. These
soon took fire and burned very rapidly.
The burning oil from them ran in liquid
streams of flame to adjacent buildings, and
destroyed many of them. The heat was SO
fierce that all efforts to reach the crushed and
burning excursioniSts was cut off for time.
The fire brigade was soon out but was UNI
able to do little more than confne the fire
to the buildings it had already taken hold
of. The sight was dreadful
one, and the horrors of it were emphasized by
the agonizing cries of the human beings who,
pinned in by the wreck, were being roasted
to death. Locomotives approached the wreck
from three directions and pulled the burning
cars from the wreck.
The fire was soon extinguished. Eager
helpers then turned their attention to the
burning mass of cars in the wreck, but when
the firelnen were rapidly getting control OF
the flames one of the oil tanks exploded,
scorching and burning scores of persons in
the large crowd who were watching the
wreck. The injured were removed to places
of safety. Many were injured by flying
pieces Of timber.
After tho explosion the work of rescuing
the bodies Of the unfortunate persons penned
up in the wreck who had not already been
burned to death was commenced, and in half
an hour nine bodies were removed, most of
them charred beyond recognition, but the
majority supposed to be women and chill
dren. The remains. of Engineer Harry Don
nelly, of London, one of the oldest on the
Grand Trunk Railway, whose engine tipped
over on him and crushed him to death Us he
was jumping from his engine, was
found His fireman, who was badly
burned, escaped with his life. Fire
man Poutford, Of the st. Thomas
fire brigade. who was OH top of the building
near the wreck when the explosion of the oil
tank occurred, WAS almost completely envel-
oped in 4 mass of burning oil and fatally
burned.
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Motion at Rest.

At the Royal Institution, London,
Mr.. Wimshurst has exhibited an exceed
ingly interesting experiment in which
small type placed on disc revolving
several thousand times minute was dis
tinctly seen and read while in motion.
This was accomplished by means of an
electrical arrangement which caused
brilliant sparks to illuminate the print
at the exact instant only when the type
was vertical. But for the buzzing pro-
duccd by the great velocity IF the disc
the words would have been supposed to
be at rest. This beautiful application OF
the electric spark gives ready means OF
observing any and all changes which
may take place in either matter or ma
chinery in rapid motion.
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LATER NEWS.

SYLvANUs COBB, JR., the well-known story
writer, died few days since at Boston, aged
sixty-four years.
A SECRET conference of leading knights OF
Labor was recently held in the East, and all
address was issued which appeals to the MEM
bers of the Order all over the country tosend
delegates to the General Assembly at Mime
apolis in October who will favor the adoption
of new constitution.
WILLIAM H. LADEN. two weeks married,
shot his bride and her mother and then killed
himself at his home in New York. He was
crazed by drink. His mother-in-law was
probably fatally injured; his wife will re-
cover.
A FIERCE storm has swept over large sec
tion of West Virginia, doing great damage to
buildings and crops. At Rockport circus
tent was blown away, and dozen spectators
were injured.
THREE or four persons were shot, one
fatally, during sham battle between cow
bows and Indians ut circus exhibition in
Clinton, Iowa. 1t is supposed loaded revol-
yer was used accidentally by one of the per-
formers
OSCAR ]. HARVEY, the Treasury Depart
ment forger, has been sentenced to twelve
years Imprisonment at hard labor in the
Albany penitentiary.
Two Indian delegations--o from Oregon
and the other from ldaho-have been in
Washington within few days. The former
presented claims for horses stolen and houses
burned by the Nez Perces ten years ago, and
the latter want to obtain permission to ne
gotiate with railroad companies seeking q
right of way through their reservation.
THE President and Mrs. Cleveland re-
turned to the White House from their New
York trip on Wednesday. Mrs. Cleveland
was twenty-three years old on Thursday,
Juiy2l.
OFFICIAL returns show that ,l4o persons
were evicted in Ireland during the quarter
ended June 80. Of these 1SS were rcadnitted
as tenants and 5, ,737 as caretakers.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.

A FIRE in New York destroyed five-story
warehouse with contents. Seven fremen
were blown through the first-story windows
by an explosion, and badly injured. The eS-
tinated damage is $500, 600.
EIcE-PREsIDENT A. B. HILL, of the New
York Stock Exchange, expired suddenly in
the Board room just after publicly announc-
ing the death of fellow broker and friend.
FROM many of the cities and towns in the
Eastern and Middle States come reports that
the heat of Sunday was the greatest felt Ill
many years. At many places the thermometer
passed the 100 point. Numerous fatal cases
of sunStroke occurred
A COLLISION between a freight and a
paSSenger-train near Mountclair, n. D.,
caused the death of fireman Harry Whitman
and serious injuries to many travellers.
A SUDDEN squall in New York Bay and
adjacent waters upset many small craft and
resulted in some loss of life.
AN appalling mortality among children is
reported from Pittsburg and Allegheny City,
Penn. where in six weeks ,l31 little ones,
sevcnty-tive per cent. of them under two
years of age, have died.
PREVIOUS to his return to Washington
from the Clinton centennial Mr. and Mrs.
Cleveland spent a day at Fayetteville. n.
Y. where the President lived for eleven
of the first fourteen years of his life. He
held reception and made a short address
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Foreign.

THE Ameer of Afghanistan has won one
battle and lost another with the insurgents.
MOUNT ETNA is again in state of erup-
ton, and earthquakes are reported in Sicily
and along the Italian coasts.
A SOCIALIST plot to assassinate Emperor
William, OF Germany, is said to have been
unearthed, and many arrests have been made.
WIN. DILLON and other prominent Home
Rule leaders were present at the eviction
of tenants at Coolgranay, Ireland. Speeches
of encouragement were made to the evicted
tenants by Dillon and others.
THE town of Becariac. Mexico, q place con-
taing 200 inhabitants, has been entirely dei
stroyed by series of earthquake shocks.
THE British House of Commons went form
ally in body to the House of Lords, where
the royal assent was given to the Irish Crimes
Act Amendment bill, AMI it was thus made
the law of the realm.
SIX Swiss tourists, including three sons of
the Director of Zurich College, have been
lost in the Alps
The French Senate has voted to increase
the army by adding twenty-five new regi-
mcntS
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A R1ca and eccentric Frenchman,
who was recently shot and nearly killed
by the English girl whom he calls his
wife, had cannon, revolvers, and rifles
in his house instead of bells. A six
FOUNDER brass cannon fired once sum-
moned the butler; fired twice it called
the cook; tnree times, the coachman.
Five discharges of the revolver in
rapid succession brought the chamber
maid; seven shots meant that the cham
bermaid should appear with hot water,
No candles were allowed to be blown
out, but were to be extinguished by
pistol shots. All the servants were
provided with revolvers, and from
morning till night there were constant
carnonading and revolver shots.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-08-03
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

THE total debt of Mexico is s15O, GOO.
THE worlds railroads carried 10000
people last year.
Two millions United States postal cards are
printed daily at present
CHICAGO, on the basis of its new directory,
claims population of SOO,OOO.
THERE are slOO,Oo0,Oo0 invested in the
watch industry of this country.
THE whole length of mail routes in opera,
tion in the United States amounts to oIo,U0o
miles.
SUNDAY bull fights have been added to the
list of entertainments for visitors at Los
Angeles, Cal.
THERE are more than sixty thousand per-
sons confined in the penal institutions of the
United States.
THE lessees of 1,6OO convicts in Georgia net
at least S75 900 per year on their labor, after
paying the state s25,OOO.
THERE will be joint Convention of the
North American and Northwestern Bee
keepers Societies in Chicago, November 9, 10
mil. 1887
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ACRES OF BLAZING OIL.
Great Destruction of Standard
Oil Company Property.
The Flames Sweep Everything for
a Quarter of a Mile.

A fire broke out in the warehouse of the
Standard Oil Company's immense plant on
Constable Hook, near Bergen Point, N. j., at
12 o'clock the other morning, and spread first
to the cooperage and then to the oil tanks. 1t
also caught the buildings of T. & S. c.
Whites sulphur mandatory. The Standard
Oil people telephoned to Greenpoint, Long
Island, for their tugs. The flames spread rap
idly, and half the town and oil the factories
were threatened
The origin suggested spontaneous combus-
tion. There was q startling explosion,
dense cloud of black smoke and succession
of eruptions of flame The flames could not
der streaked the floor. The heavy smoke
rolled thicker and faster each moment, and
when the flames had quickly enveloped the
premises there was reelection in the sky that
attracted attention for miles around.
The Standard Oil Company's possessions on
the Hook included the plant of the Tide
water Pipe Line Company, the Polar
Oil Company, the Ocean Oil Com
pany, and other absorbed companies,
Rd %dr employed carsss sfsSr" on hundred tSsts
night as well as by day. There are forty or
fifty oil tanks on the Hook, and on the water
front are manufactures, the Bayonne Chem
ical Works and the Oxford Copper and Sui
phur Company among them.
At 2:30 o'clock the fire was raging along
the wharves, and was slowly eating its way
inward toward the town, licking up small oil
tanks and buildings on its way. At this time
the large lumber yard of A. w. Booth &
Brother, directly in line of the fire, and
the Standard Match Factory, were in great
danger. The whole Fire Department Of
Bergen Point, as we'll as the engines of the
surrounding small towns were doing
good service, but the flames had such
a base of operations in the burning oil
that it was difficult battle. From time to
time the tiremen were driven back by the
bursting of the tanks. The Standard Oil
Company's barrel factory, supply house, and
warehouse were entirely consumed. There
were six very loud oil tank explosions, but
no lives were lost
The fire extended from the Standard ware
house, where it was first discovered, to the
barrel factory, distance of quarter of a
mile, burning everything in its way. Tug
boats were called from Elizabeth as well as
from Bergen Point. About dozen tanks
were ablaze at !. As o'clock.
At thre, O'clock the fire department found
it impossible to check the headway of the
flames, which were spreading rapidly to the
long lines of oil tanks. At four o'clock the
fire was under control.
The loss will be very heavy. It is esti-
mated at S1,W0,00J.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

MRS. JENNIE PALMER-HEAMEs, Of Detroit,
has written a comic opera.
MADAME CHRISTINE NILSSON is expected to
sing in this country next season in concert.
Her price is supposed to be 81, 500 concert.
"THE LITTLE SINNER" is the title of a new
five-act comedy drama which Mr.. Howard P.
Taylor has just finished writing for Maggie
Mitchell.
MISS CARREN CAMPBELL, an American
violinist, has been astonishing the Germans
with her magnificent playing. She promises
to excel Camil aUrso.
Mr.. AUGUSTIN DAILY, of New York, pro
poses to present the Tanning of the Shrew"
in London next summer in way that will
equal the representation given in this coun-
try by Mr.. Henry Irving.
JAMES P. VOORHEES,, son Of the Indiana
Senator, is writing play, which he expects
to have finished and ready for production this
fall. The piece will deal with some Of the eX'
isting conditions of the labor question.
CARL RosA's English Opera Company will
include Nine. Marie Roze, Mrs. Burns, Messrs
Runcio. Crotty and Salvage. Among. the
works in this years repertoire will be
"Lohengrin," 'Nordisa," 'Masaniello," and
Masses "Galathee"
MASTER JOSEPH HOFFMAN, the wonderful
young pianist, made such n success in Lon
don that he will return to fill further engage
ments there this fall and again next spring,
making tour of the English provinces be-
tween his metropolitan engagements.
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A Banuuct to the ParnclIitcs.

Mr. Parnell and many of his Home Rule
colleagues were entertained the other evening
ut banquet in London by the National Lib
eral club The health of the Queen was pre-
proposed by Mr.. Dillwyn, and the guests all
rose decorously and drank the toast.
Mr.. Parnel eulogized Mr. Gladstone for
having put his shoulder to the wheel, and
said that before many months the ex-P Premier
would carry his policy and be recognized as
the only great man in British politics. Others
who were now attracting attention were
tempters, imitators and thinkers. Mr..
Parnell wondered how long English
men would he contented to see
the Government march up the hill and
down again. The recent elections had forced
them to make concessions or resign. The En-
glish Liberals might be assured that their ex-
ertions would not be wasted. Although in Ire
land extreme misery had been suffered during
the past eighteen months, crime had dimin-
ished and the people had turned to constitu-
tional methods of adjusting their grievances
instead of to physical force. The Liberals
might claim therein great success, for the
people recognized that through their exer-
tions the way had been opened to an honorable
union.
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THE LABOR WORLD.

THE loss Of employers and workers by the
Pennsylvania coke strike is computed thus
far to be $780, 600.
The stove molders, Perry & Co., of Albany,
are preparing to erect one of the largest
foundries i'll the country.
THIS years railroad construction, accord
ing to present indications, will reach 1900
miles Of main track. There are 200, 700 miles
of track in the world.
THERE are 100000 men engaged i'll the
building trades of the United States, and
while spending their lives in putting roofs
over other mems heads not one in ten owns the
roof over his own.
THE Bethleham, Pa, Iron Company is now
erecting new steel forging and armor plate
works The company will soon begin work
on the large Government Contract recently
awarded to them.
UNTIL 1S4S it was Imprisonment for any
man in England to mention the question OF
rise in wages to his employer, and 1t was
treason for three men to meet together or
combine to get their wages raised.
THE value of the coal produced last year in
about g. so per head of population. In gross
tons the amount was 96, IA, S9 tons. PENN
sylvania led Off with 63,0OO,0O0 tons, and
Idaho makes the tail with 1,5O0 tons. Penn
sylania's bill was ST., ,5SS, 126.
VICTOR DELAHAYE, a representative OF the
machinists of Paris, France, is now travelling
through this country, investigating the tex
tile machinery used here. Two-thirds OF that
machinery used in France is imported from
Eng, and. Mr. Delahaye says the Partisan
machinists propose to supply the home de-
mand by establishing cooperative factory,
and have petitioned the government for a
loan of 6,060,0 000 francs with which to start
AT the recent convention of the National
Plastercrs' Union it was decided to make the
organization an international one as applica-
tions for charters were received from Cana.
dian piastererS. 4.
IT is reported from Pittsburg that notwlth'
standing the shutdown Of the blast furnaces
on account of the coke strike, the ore ship
ment from the lakes show q large increase
over last year, and it is estimated that the
production this year will be 100000 tons in
excess of what it was in lSS6.
THE development of bituminous coal lands
this year will be greater than for any year
since the war. Large tracts for development
have been bought up, and the coal from the
most of these will be in the market by the
first of next year. The Pennsylvania, Read
ing, and Lehigh Valley companies expect by
new connections to get into other bituminous
territory than which they now reach.
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Mrs. JOHN CHANDLER, who lives
about six miles east of Marietta, Ga,
set goose in the spring. The goose
sat on the eggs about week, and died
on the nest. She was taken off the
nest, and gander, mate of the goose,
took her place and sat three weeks,
when the eggs Matched, six in number.
He cares for the little orphans just like
a mother goose, covers them at night,
and during the day leads them to
where the grass is the greenest.
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Mr.. Blaine's Movements.

A London dispatch says that Mr.. James G.
Blaine has decided not to 60 to Spithead to
witness the Jubilee naval review. Senators
Hawley and Frye and Mr.. Murat Halstead
will accompany the Diplomatic Corps to
Spithead
Another dispatch from Kinshorn, Scotland,
states that Senator, Hale, who is with Mr..
Blaine. had declared to Scotch dignitary
that the ex-Secretary of State was not in
very good health. The turnpike trip
to Dunfernline shook Mr.. Blaine up so
severely that he has complained ever since of
racking pains in his back. At a banquet fol-
lowing the ceremonies attending the unveil-
ing of Alexander III monument Mr.. Blaine
III response to the toast of his health said:
, 1.-The men of Scotch blood in America
are far more numerous than they are in
Scotland, and no portion of the inhab
itants of the United States has con-
tributed more to the general welfare of the
Republic, has established higher character
and has exhibited in all great fields of labor
more progressive talent. We must never
forget to reckon the immense influence which
Scotch blood has in the iberty-loving char
acter of the people"
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THE NATIONAL GAME,

THE Chicagos of to-day are not the derided
club of a month ago.
NEW ORLEANS has found in Charleston
her toughest opponent.
sFoRTY games in the international League
have been won by single run.
HAcKETT, of Hartford, is considered the
best short stop of the Eastern League.
THERE haye been two triple plays made in
the League this season-one by the Bostons
and one by the Detroits.
ALL over California baseball is on the
boom, every town almost, has a good club,
and others are being organized.
ONE of the most curious of condolences has
taken place in Philadelphia. The Chicagoes
won three straight games by score of 5 to 3.
A CLEVELAND club agent, who was in the
towns of the Southern League looking for
players, says the Southern League cannot
last much longer.
A SHORT time ago there took place at Mil
waukee one of the most remarkable games
ever played. For fifteen innings neither the
home club nor the Oshkosh Club scored The
game was won in the seventeenth inning by
Milwaukee, to3.
ONE Of the long home run hits Of the New
Orleans slugger Cartwright, was recently
measured. The ball dropped in a soft place
ana SUCK rlShC Wnere IL 1eu; nence correct
measurement was possible. 1t was found
that the man had batted the ball exactly 5S5
feet.
8 PITTSBURGH, Washington and Philadelphia
are better off for batteries than New York
and Detroit, but rank ever so much lower,
because they do not back their batteries up in
the field and with the bat as those clubs do
1t takes more than good batteries, essential
as they are, to land club at the top.
THE National League is now in its twelfth
year. Chicago and Boston are the only re-
manning original members, and but seven Of
the players who started out with the League
are in its ranks at present. Morrill,, Sutton
and Burdock are now with Boston; O'Rourke,
New York; Hines, Washington; Anson,
Chicago, and White is with the Detroits
If the nine best players in the League could
be formed into one team, according to aver
ages at present, it would be composed as fol-
lowers: Ferguson of the Philadelphias, pitcher;
Myers of Indianapolis, catcher; Morrill, of the
Bostons, first base; Richardson of the New
Yorks, second base; Sutton of the Bostons,
third base; Smith of the Pittsburghs, short
stop; Dalrymple and Coleman of the same
club, left and right felders respectively, and
Johnston Of Boston, centre field.